Footnote:Oscar Wilde on foxhunting: the unspeakablein full pursuit of the inedible.In rural areas of Virginia this barbarism continues,a blood ‘sport’ in which foxes are torn apartand horses break their legs.

Ms Steel
as late as 2009 was
still promoting fur and
animal flesh… countless

times
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Footnote: It is still true
in publishing circles such
as Time Warner and Rupert Murdoch’s
publishing hosues that those who
promote the consumption of animal
flesh, the purchase of furs, the illegal
wars and intelligence agencies promoting
them, copious product placement of fast
food chains and international stores..
are more likely to be published, and that

Some nurses see contamination, germs
everywhere. They have more incidence
of sickness among their children
because they focus upon disease,
in all places except the hospital
cafeteria, whose disgraceful offerings
include the cadaverous burgers on which
the staff feed.

Seawaters have a fizzing
sound in surf ..
Further along they
slap against the piers,
crash against the rocks..
silently slide
in the tide
Above them
sails flap in the wind
lightning cracks
gulls shriek
In the poststorm sky
the wind sings lullabies

GENTLE ROACHThey shrink not fromthe approachof a gentle roach.On the rights of the smallthey will not encroach

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Footnote:

According to Mary Lou Henley Danny DeVito would not allow anyone to harm the cockroaches on the set of Taxi. She said he convinced her to become vegetarian. A Terry Gross Show , perhaps BobbieWomack, reported that Jimmy Hendrix would never step on a roach. DPB: At my school the cockroaches could distinguish between the killers and the nonkillers, and they knew that they were more likely to be harmed by people standing at a sink than if seated on the commode. Buddhist James Coburn, reported Vegetarian World, would not harm a fly.

Watermelons with alternating
stripes
of forest green and lime
Breadfruit with many hues of
mosaic diamonds
Crimson skinned apples with
constellations of gold stars
Nutbrown coconut husks
Eggplant purples
Opened pomegranates
with seeds not of granite
but juicy rubies hidden
in chambers
Pears of yellow and amber
Violet grapes in clusters
swelling with the sun’s luster

These are not the greenof meat’s gangrene,the rust red of congealedanimal flesh bloodbut the entire color spectrumvisibleonly in nonviolent fruit.*